Man, Dantom has ruined me for other programming.
I needed to do some work using an object system that I used to consider elegant and simple to use.
Argh! It had all these extra characters! I had to end lines with semi-colons! I had to use braces instead of indenting!
I felt like I was slogging through a swamp, and having to do a whole lot of extra typing and code-obscuration in order to give the machine what it needed, rather than make the code work for me as a human.
But now it's the weekend and I'm back to the great Byond!
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Jul 22 2000, 1:17 pm
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Oh yeah, the other thing that was a massive pain: string handling. After the elegant approach to dynamic strings in Byond, having to use format strings in other languages seems truly barbaric.